Licking Heights coach Darren Waters addresses his team Aug. 17 after its scrimmage against Big Walnut. The Hornets are hoping to duplicate their 10-0 regular season from 2012.

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Licking Heights celebrated the five-year anniversary of the program's breakthrough the only way it could.

The Hornets honored that 9-1 season by doing one better, winning 10 games and a Mid-State League-Cardinal Division title before making the program's third playoff appearance. The challenge is doing it again.

Heights could not quite duplicate that success in the years after 2007, stubbing its toe down the stretch against Liberty Union and West Jefferson. This time, the Hornets will have to do it in the Licking County League. ...